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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > To my way of thinking, content providers are net producers of 'benefit' > and say dial-up users are consumers. We adjust our prices to reflect > this: if you buy a leased line from us to run a Web server, we charge > you less; if you are a dial-up provider, we charge you more. > > Most end users would agree with this model. They pay their 10 quid / > 15 bucks a month so that they can surf the Web. They don't expect the > Net to pay them ;-) > > So basically what you're saying here is that your ISP should be paying > you to connect to your web servers, and they will pass the charges on > downstream to their customers? That's not far off from what I am saying, except that you have the roles confused. I am saying that * we (a backbone ISP) * charge customer ISPs whose primary business is dialup * (net consumers of benefit) * more than those whose business is selling Web space or who operate a Web server * (net producers of benefit) We don't do dial-up ourselves; many of our customers do. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 http://www.uk.vbc.net VBCnet West +1 408 971 2682 fax +1 408 971 2684 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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